Thought Leadership on Java Skills Management

Anthony Flynn

Successful, innovative marketing/sales executive in technology industries with
20 years experience helping companies grow revenue and win markets. Served as CMO and a VP Global Sales for $400M software provider. Also, owned and ran a management consulting company that serviced high-tech CEOs, and was top performer at two start-ups that reached IPO and grew to revenue of $100MM and $800M.
Major contributions in the following industries during high-growth phases: Architectural
and Engineering Services and Software, GIS, Electronic Design Automation. Degree in
Math with minors in EE and CS.
Now leading US and Indian efforts for JavaBlackBelt, a global leader in Java skills management with over 50,000 members.

Last month, JavaBlackBelt completed a survey where developers said their
teams would be 25% more productive if their management committed to skills
management... which led me to consider:
Which Java technologies do developers think that managers should understand
better in order to make great decisions about skills management?
I'll suggest, as a start:
-- Java SE and EE basics
-- ORM's (Hibernate, ...)
-- Web Frameworks (lStruts 2, ...)
-- IDEs (Eclipse, ...)
-- Source Code Mgmt
-- Testing Methods
-- JavaScript
-- Ajax
Very open to your thoughts, and who might find such a course useful... feel
free to comment here and/or send email to
java4managers@globalforcedirect.com.
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Last month, JavaBlackBelt members reported that their productivity would
increase by 25% if management installed Java Skills Management. The
pressing question from managers: how do we do this?
I've talked with JBB founder John Rizzo and he's developed a 6-step
"installation plan" for Java skills management. Those steps and highlights
are below my salutation.
If you’d like to discuss/start this process, feel free to say so at:
globalforcedirect.com/discovery-sessions/.
Step 1. Discovery
No-charge JBB consultations on installing Java skills management into the
organization. JBB ex... (more)

JavaBlackBelt just announced its “Coached e‐Learning” for Java
developers.
In a developer survey to be released next week, this Coached e‐Learning was
selected as the #1 choice for Java learning compared with classroom training
and self‐paced e‐Learning.
Here’s how it works:
1. In these courses, the coach meets with the student to begin each course,
reviews the course plan and materials, and agrees to a schedule.
2. The student then learns at their own pace from the JavaBlackBelt eLearning
platform ‐‐ online materials and videos, community forums, exercises, and
exams.
3. Alon... (more)

JavaBlackBelt, a provider of Java learning and powered by over 50,000
developers in its global community, today announced the worldwide
availability of SkillScan, its cutting-edge, automated tool to assess the
Java skills of job candidates.
SkillScan is used by recruiters and hiring managers to screen Java candidates
and staff teams with the right combination of skills. In less than two hours,
SkillScan provides a comprehensive and conclusive report of candidate skills
in Java programming, sub-topics in Java, and related technologies.
SkillScan speeds and improves the recruiting ... (more)

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Brussels, Belgium, January 21, 2009 – JavaBlackBelt, a leader in Java
learning and now powered by over 50,000 developers in its European community,
today announced the opening of its web 2.0-based Java skills management
services to enterprises in the US and India. Specifically, it has reached
agreement with Boston-based Global Force DIRECT™ for distribution rights
across these regions.
The JavaBlackBelt service, driven by crowd-sourcing/moderation, already
offers the world’s most comprehensive, state-of-the-art digest of Java
skil... (more)

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